Organic Chemistry 2

What are the most important factors that affect the basicity of amines? Previously, we’ve seen how to evaluate the basicity of amines by examining the pKa of its conjugate acid (pKaH). (The higher the pKaH, th…

There has been a trend in recent years towards including transition metal catalyzed reactions in the introductory organic chemistry curriculum. The reactions most common covered are palladium catalyzed coupling react…

Here’s the summary for today’s post: Organometallics: What About The Rest Of The Periodic Table? In this whole series on organometallics so far has covered exactly TWO metals: lithium and magnesium (with a…

In the last post we introduced the concept of organometallic compounds – molecules where carbon is bound to a less electronegative atom such as Li, Mg, Cu, and many other metals. We said that carbon in these mol…

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